Now that skateboarding is making its Olympic debut, he feels like it’s always been his destiny.
“I’m feeling beyond ready. I m feeling the most I ve ever felt in my life.”
Competition is in his blood, Jagger’s parents were competitive gymnasts with Olympic dreams of their own, his family runs a gymnastics training gym in Mesa, Arizona.
“I was always brought up doing calisthenics and, you know, aerobics and doing all these things, you know, just as a kid and really applying that to skateboarding like, changed my life,” he said.
Shortly after Jagger got his first board, at age four, his dad built a skate ramp inside the gym for Jagger and his brother Jett, eventually turning the business into a family friendly sports complex called Kids That Rip.
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